Terrorism: The Root Causes

FrontPage Magazine ^ | November 9, 2005 | David Meir-Levi

[mississippi red-neck]

Worth repeating.

As noted above, the opposite is the case. Decades before Afghanistan and Iraq 2, we used our military power to support Arab causes: as when Truman forced Israel to return segments of eastern Sinai to Egypt after the 1948 war; or when Eisenhower forced Israel to return the entire Sinai to Egypt in 1956; or when Johnson forced Israel to agree to cease-fires in 1967, and Nixon in 1973, just when Israel’s armies were on the verge of decisive victories; or when we sent our Marines to Lebanon to protect Palestinians and to save Arafat from Sharon in 1982 (only to have 226 of those same Marines blown up by an Arab suicide bomber); or when Clinton pressured Israel to bring Arafat out of exile in Tunisia and set him up as governor of the Palestinian Authority so that the Oslo Accords could be implemented, or when we bombed Christian Serbs to protect Moslems in Bosnia.

This is why we have a problem in the Middle East and with the terrorism that emanates from there.

Every time God gave Israel a miraculous victory and the land that went with it the U.S. as an ally has stepped in under pressure from Arab and American oil tycoons and pressured them to give it back just like we are doing now.

We have never lifted a finger in any of the number of attacks they have suffered to help them but we always show up after their victories to claim the spoils and use them to appease Arabs and political donors at the expense of Israel's security.

If we had just backed them up through the years we could be buying our oil from them and we wouldn't have to send any of our troops to the Middle East.

Where Israel and the Arabs are concerned we have always let our wallets supersede our wisdom.

[unionblue83]

Well said. Hopefully the protests in Jordan escalate and the Jordanian gov't strikes back.